Sometimes I buy a stamp set or dies not because I have an immediate need for them but because I can see their long-term potential. Banners for You was one of those stamp sets, and of course I had to get the coordinating Bunch of Banners Framelits Dies too. Although there are a number of words and phrases in the set, what drew me in were the four different banner outlines. These simple stamps would allow me to create an infinite number of custom banner sentiments. Fast forward to the ... VIEW POST
Noel and Christmas Pines
Well Christmas is definitely in the air here in my little part of Nova Scotia. Overnight we had a couple of inches of snow and everything looks very pretty. Mind you I don't think the pheasants that were out this morning were very impressed. Still, it was the perfect excuse to pull out the Christmas Pines Stamp Set with the large noel sentiment for today's project. PRETTY PINES I decided to start this project with the Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies and my Big Shot and multipurpose ... VIEW POST
Christmas in July
Next week in my regular monthly papercraft class our theme will be Christmas In July and I've been putting together some new designs using old, but still available, Stampin' Up! products. The first set I grabbed was the Snowflake Sentiments Stamp Set, which has some lovely large sentiments as well as smaller sentiments that could be used on the inside of a card. It also has some great coordinating images. One particular sentiment "Wrapped in the warmth of Christmas' caught my eye and from ... VIEW POST
